AST
E932744
AST is the National Rail station code for Aston railway station in Birmingham, England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AST canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11552623 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: AST Context triple: [Aston railway station, hasStationCode, AST]
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A.
AST
AST is the time zone used in several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, that is three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
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B.
STA
STA is the vehicle registration code for the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany.
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C.
ASH
ASH is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Mesa Airlines in international aviation operations.
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D.
ASH
ASH is the National Rail station code for Ashington railway station in Northumberland, England.
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E.
ASE
ASE is the Amman Stock Exchange, the principal securities market of Jordan where stocks and other financial instruments are traded.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: AST Target entity description: AST is the National Rail station code for Aston railway station in Birmingham, England.
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A.
AST
AST is the time zone used in several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, that is three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
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B.
STA
STA is the vehicle registration code for the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany.
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C.
ASH
ASH is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Mesa Airlines in international aviation operations.
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D.
ASH
ASH is the National Rail station code for Ashington railway station in Northumberland, England.
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E.
ASE
ASE is the Amman Stock Exchange, the principal securities market of Jordan where stocks and other financial instruments are traded.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | National Rail station code ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Aston railway station in Birmingham, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Aston railway station
railway station ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Birmingham
ⓘ
England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| railNetwork | British railway network ⓘ |
| represents | Aston railway station ⓘ |
| usedBy | National Rail ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: AST Description of subject: AST is the National Rail station code for Aston railway station in Birmingham, England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.